Don’t believe everything you read about the great liberalization of Myanmar underway since 2011. The former hermit state is still politically unstable and the economy has fallen further behind neighboring countries.

Mozambique has seen a modest pick-up in economic growth over the past two decades, but it remains the poorest and least developed country in southern Africa, both in human rights and gender development terms.

India is the single largest source of trafficked women in the world, and the state of Andhra Pradesh stands out as its worst offender. The largest share of trafficked children for sexual exploitation comes from this part of the country, according to a recent Human Development Report.